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A little-known free trade deal threatens to sound the death knell on public services — long before the controversial new US-EU TTIP agreement comes into effect.
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) warned yesterday that shadowy bureaucrats and big business figures from Canada and Brussels have already finished behind-closed-doors talks on the separate “Ceta” deal.
TUC international head Owen Tudor said that once it is implemented, “most of the worries people have about TTIP will already have come to pass.”
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT